Engineering7 min read
Building a Booking System for an RV Resort
How I designed and built a custom booking system for North TX RV Resort — site selection, date management, deposit collection, and the edge cases of hospitality software.
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Engineering7 min read
Building SaaS Billing with Stripe: Beyond the Basics
Advanced SaaS billing with Stripe — metered billing, proration, plan changes, dunning, tax automation, and the edge cases that trip up growing SaaS products.
Heritage6 min read
The Wars of Scottish Independence: Beyond Braveheart
The real Wars of Scottish Independence were longer, messier, and more politically complex than any film could capture. Here is what actually happened.
Engineering7 min read
Building Email Infrastructure for SaaS Applications
Email infrastructure in SaaS goes far beyond sending messages. Here's how to build transactional email, deliverability, and reputation management that actually works.
Frontend7 min read
Vue 3 Performance Optimization: Practical Techniques That Actually Matter
Optimize Vue 3 applications with techniques that make a real difference — lazy loading, virtual scrolling, memoization, and smart reactivity patterns.
Heritage7 min read
Proto-Indo-European: The Mother Tongue of Half the World
Nearly half the world's population speaks a language descended from Proto-Indo-European, a tongue spoken on the Pontic-Caspian Steppe five thousand years ago. Here is what we know about the language nobody wrote down.
Heritage7 min read
The Bardic Tradition: Poets as Historians in Celtic Society
In Celtic Ireland and Scotland, poets were not entertainers. They were historians, genealogists, lawmakers, and political operatives. The bardic tradition preserved the memory of nations for over a thousand years.
Engineering7 min read
Mobile App Development in 2026: Approaches and Trade-offs
A practical guide to mobile app development approaches in 2026 — native, cross-platform, hybrid, and PWA — with honest trade-offs for each path.
Engineering8 min read
SEO Strategy for MyAutoGlassRehab: Ranking in a Competitive Local Market
The SEO approach I used to rank a new auto glass website in DFW — local keyword strategy, technical SEO with Nuxt 3, and content that actually converts.
Heritage7 min read
The Pontic Steppe: Cradle of Indo-European Civilization
The Pontic-Caspian Steppe -- a vast grassland stretching from Ukraine to the Urals -- was the homeland of the Proto-Indo-European speakers whose descendants would populate most of Europe and much of Asia. Here is the landscape that launched a linguistic and genetic revolution.
Business7 min read
Calculating ROI on Custom Software Development
How to measure the return on investment from custom software. A practical guide to quantifying costs, benefits, and payback periods for software projects.
Architecture8 min read
The Saga Pattern: Managing Distributed Transactions
When you split a monolith into services, you lose ACID transactions across boundaries. The saga pattern is how you get consistency back.
Heritage7 min read
The Celtic Otherworld: Beliefs About Life After Death
The ancient Celts did not fear death the way their Mediterranean neighbors did. Their Otherworld was not a place of punishment or reward but a parallel realm of eternal youth, feasting, and beauty that existed just beyond the edge of perception.
DevOps7 min read
Edge Deployment Patterns for Low-Latency Applications
Edge computing moves your application logic closer to users. Here are the deployment patterns that actually work and the trade-offs you need to understand.
Engineering6 min read
Lazy Loading Strategies for Faster Web Apps
Lazy loading defers non-critical resource loading to speed up initial page load. Here are the strategies that actually work and the mistakes that make things worse.